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- The Psychedelic Screen Saver - Version 4.0
- Copyright (C) 1995-1998
- All Rights Reserved
- http://www.synthesoft.com
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- This file contains the following information:
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- OVERVIEW ..............: What is The Psychedelic Screen Saver?
- CD/SPECTRUM PRO........: What is it and why do you mention it?
- RELEASE NOTES..........: What should I know about version 4.0?
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...: What do I need in order to run it?
- INSTALLATION ..........: How do I install it? / How do I get rid of it?
- PURCHASING ............: Where can I find info on how to purchase it?
- QUESTIONS/SUPPORT .....: Where can I get help with problems?
- UPDATES................: When is the next version due?
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- OVERVIEW
-
- The Psychedelic Screen Saver generates an endless variety of mesmerizing
- patterns. As the patterns materialize on your screen, the colors will shift,
- undulate, and generally speaking, look cool. Whether you're into abstract
- art, mathematics, or just have a history of mental illness, you'll love
- this screen saver.
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- Version 4.0 of The Psychedelic Screen Saver has been designed to work in
- conjunction with CD/Spectrum Pro in order to provide stunning visual
- effects that synchronize with the sounds from an audio device (like the CD
- player in your computer). With many of the module controls you can now
- associate a sound frequency, a range of effect, and a sensitivity.
- Fluctuations in the amplitude of the frequency will oscillate the control
- values within the range of effect.
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- CD/SPECTRUM PRO
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- CD/Spectrum Pro is a 32 bit shareware CD-Audio Player with a Graphical
- Spectrum Analyzer for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. It can be used in
- conjunction with The Psychedelic Screen Saver in order to allow the patterns
- and the colors generated by the screen saver to be synchronized with sound.
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- CD/Spectrum Pro has almost every feature you can find on any software CD
- player. It supports programmed mode, intro mode, optional taskbar icon
- operation, auto-play, auto-exit, auto-eject, artist/track/title database,
- etc. It also recognizes CDP files which can save you from typing in all the
- track/title information for your CDs. The spectrum analyzer graphically
- depicts the frequency spectra of the CD music in real time.
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- PSYCH V4.0 RELEASE NOTES
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- * Installing The Psychedelic Screen Saver v4.0 will overwrite prior
- versions of The Psychedelic Screen Saver. If you've installed a
- previous version (2.5 or higher) you may want to backup your
- settings prior to installing version 4.0. While Psych v4.0 is
- compatible with your existing saved settings, it will convert
- them to a format that is incompatible with previous versions
- of The Psychedelic Screen Saver.
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- * The Psychedelic Screen Saver v4.0 is free to users who have
- purchased a 3.x version and is available to users who have
- purchased a previous version of The Psychedelic Screen Saver as
- a $10 upgrade. The upgrade licenses you for Psych 4.x but not
- for CD/Spectrum Pro.
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- * Purchasing Psych v4.0 licenses you to use all updates of
- The Psychedelic Screen Saver prior to version 5.0 and *ALL*
- previous versions.
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- * You must have a sound card installed (and properly configured) in
- your system in order for Psych 4.0 to sync with sound.
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- * CD Spectrum Pro 3.5 must be running in order for Psych v4.0 to
- sync with sound.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- Suggested:
- * The Psychedelic Screen Saver v4.0 runs quite nicely on a 80486 DX2-66
- system. However, if it is being used in conjunction with CD Spectrum
- Pro then you'll probably want at least Pentium 90 (or better <g>)
-
- * Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 95
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- * We recommend (but donÆt require) a 256 color display card. While the
- screen savers will work just fine in high/true color modes, you will
- only get the palette animation effects in 256 color video modes.
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- More info...
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- In order to get some of the effects that they use, the screen savers
- use a palletized video mode. This means that colors are referenced by
- index rather than by RGB value. By using a palletized video mode, the
- screen savers can change the RGB value that corresponds to a particular
- palette index and the result is that all of the colors on the screen
- that use that index are immediately updated. Neither high or true color
- modes use a palette, so it is not possible to achieve the effects without
- manually updating the entire display. Since updating the entire display
- is far too slow, we didn't code the screen savers to do it.
-
- If you have MicrosoftÆs DirectX extensions installed then you can use
- the "Video Mode" panel inside the Psychedelic Screen Saver configuration
- dialog to set the video mode that the screen saver will run in. The
- screen saver can only provide this feature if the DirectX extensions are
- installed on your system. You can find out if you have the extensions
- installed by selecting the "Video Mode" panel. If there is a message
- telling you that they are not installed then you can download them from
- MicrosoftÆs web site at: http://www.microsoft.com/directx/
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- INSTALLATION / REMOVAL
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- To install the Psychedelic Screen Saver, run the setup program (INSTALL.EXE)
- and then follow the directions. If you later decide that you would like to
- remove the software from your system, run the un-install program
- (UNINSTALL.EXE) that's in the directory you installed to.
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- PURCHASING
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- For complete details on how to purchase a license for the Psychedelic
- Screen Saver, just press the "REGISTER" button in the Psychedelic
- Screen Saver configuration dialog and follow the instructions in the
- registration wizard.
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- Please refer to the Licence Agreement section of the online documentation
- for complete information on the license agreement.
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- QUESTIONS/SUPPORT
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- For complete information on how to obtain technical support for all Synthesoft
- products, please refer to the following Technical Support page on the
- Synthesoft web site:
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- http://www.synthesoft.com/techsupport.htm
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- On this page you will find a "Frequently Asked Questions" list, a diagnostics
- program, and additional information that may help our support staff to assist
- you with your questions.
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- UPDATES
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- We post updates to the software on our web site fairly often. When we're feeling
- particularly creative we may post updates as many as 2 or 3 times a month. You
- can visit our web site at: http://www.synthesoft.com
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